Parker Estate Block 95 2022

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Mattinson review of Parker Estate Block 95 2022

Parker Estate Block 95 2022
$65, 14.5%, screwcap, Coonawarra.

This is a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon and Petit Verdot from Coonawarra. The first word that springs to mind, after your first sip, is robust. This is a muscular, ample-bodied red wine with blackcurrant, dark chocolate, tobacco and boysenberry characters flooding throughout. There’s a distinct firmness to the finish, which gives the wine a real flex; it’s pumped up with flavour but it’s tense and taut at the same time. This wine is therefore hearty and tannic but also neat. It’s good now and it has a future ahead of it. 93 points.

Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of the highly respected The Winefront site.

Mattinson has been a respected wine critic and photo-journalist since 1987. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the prized Best Australian Sports Writing Award.

Mattinson puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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